Slava Stetsko

Yaroslava Yosypivna Stetsko (, ; 14 May 1920 – 12 March 2003), also popularly known as Slava Stetsko, was a Ukrainian politician and a WWII-era veteran of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Biography Born Anna (Hanna) Yevheniia Muzyka in Romanówka near Ternopil in the Second Polish Republic, she became a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in 1938. When a schism occurred within the OUN in 1940, Anna went with the wing of the OUN-B led by Stepan Bandera. During World War II, she served as an orderly and nurse in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. After spending two years in the underground,

After the war, she married Yaroslav Stetsko and graduated from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. During that time she cooperated with Stepan Bandera and Dmytro Dontsov. During that time she also became an executive member of the World Anti-Communist League. Stetsko was a member of the central committee of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) and became its chairman after the death of her husband in 1986.

Slava Stetsko returned to Ukraine in July 1991 after 50 years of emigration. At the time of her return, she was forced to use a different name in order to evade arrest.

Personal life and death Besides her native Ukrainian, Stetsko possessed the knowledge of Polish, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Slovak and Belarusian languages. After her return to Ukraine, she lived at her niece's house in Kyiv, as she had no flat of her own.

Slava Stetsko died in Munich, after a short illness, having previously suffered a heart attack. She was buried at Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.